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About the Project

In August of 2006, Seattle Parks and Recreation began a Public Involvement
Process to gather community input on a Vegetation Management Plan (VMP)
for Lake Washington Boulevard. The basis of the first draft included
the 1903 Olmsted Plan for the City's boulevard system, aka the "Emerald
Necklace", a 1986 EDAW study of the Boulevard, and a University
of Washington Landscape Architecture Studio. There have been eight community
meetings and several smaller stakeholder meetings to collect feedback
on the draft plan. Issues raised during the public process include slope
stability, tree species selections, views from adjacent residential
areas, wildlife habitat, maintenance needs, and recreation area access.

Parks staff have developed a second draft of the VMP. Updates to the
first draft have included clarification of technical language, updated
drawings that reflect the plans potential visual impacts, an appendix
containing the full geotechnical report for the project, tree inventory
maps, and language reflecting agreements made with the community during
the initial public process. Parks staff has enhanced the production
of this second draft VMP with the participation of a Project Advisory
Team comprised of leaders from citizen groups that have expressed strong
interest in the VMP.

PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

The Public Comment Period on the first draft VMP ended January 31,
2007. The Board of Parks Commissioners
hearing for the VMP, originally scheduled for March 8th, has been postponed
and will be rescheduled. Parks staff will be working to update the VMP
through April. Starting in May Parks staff, with the assistance of a
facilitator, will meet with a Project Advisory Team (PAT) to review
this second draft of the VMP. Revisions to the draft from this process
will be posted to the website late summer 2007. The second draft VMP
will be presented at a 9th public meeting slated for late summer. Meeting
schedule is pending progress made by the PAT. The meeting will be announced
by mail at a minimum of three weeks in advance of the meeting date.
For questions regarding this continuing process, please contact Katie
Moller katie.moller@seattle.gov,
(206) 233-5019.

Past Community Meetings

Draft Presentation

In the weeks following our final Management Unit public involvement
meetings, there has been a significant amount of public feedback. In
response to feedback, we held two draft Vegetation Management Plan presentations.